Week 01
Introduction and overview

SSPS4102 Data Analytics in the Social Sciences
SSPS6006 Data Analytics for Social Research


Semester 1, 2026
Last updated: 2026-01-13

Francesco Bailo

Acknowledgement of Country

I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and culture. The University of Sydney is located on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present.

First section

Quarto

Note title

Note text

Tip title

Tip text

Important title

Important text

Footers for comments, or links to further resources. These don’t show up when printing the slides to pdf!

Asides

Block quote

  • For further details on customisations available see here
  • Icons can be included by installing the fontawesome Quarto extension.

Layouts

Layout

List One

  • Item A
  • Item B
  • Item C
  • Item D

List Two

  • Item X
  • Item Y
  • Item Z

Columns (more customisable)

Left column

Right column

Plots: below code

library(ggplot2)
p1 = iris |> ggplot() +
  aes(x = Petal.Length, y = Petal.Width, colour = Species) + 
  geom_point(size = 4) + theme_classic(base_size = 20)
p1

Plots: hide code using echo: false

Plots: auto two column using output-location: column

p1 = iris |> ggplot() +
  aes(x = Petal.Length, 
      y = Petal.Width, 
      colour = Species) + 
  geom_point(size = 4) + 
  theme_classic(base_size = 30)
p1

Bullets

When you click the Render button a document will be generated that includes:

  • Content authored with markdown
  • Output from executable code

Reference Wickham et al. (2019)

Code

When you click the Render button a presentation will be generated that includes both content and the output of embedded code. You can embed code like this:

1 + 1
[1] 2

Handy R package

The quartostamp R package provides RStudio “Addins” that make life easier for working with Quarto documents. It has a bunch of templates, e.g. for creating

  • callout blocks
  • columns
  • tabsets
  • footnotes
  • pauses
  • speaker notes…

References

Wickham, H., Averick, M., Bryan, J., Chang, W., McGowan, L.D., François, R., … Yutani, H. (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1686. DOI: 10.21105/joss.01686